H1N1 is really interesting. I agree with Professor Lee Wei Ling (MM Lee's daughter). Singapore should let H1N1 in to build herd immunity. The virus should be in the process of mutating either now or soon, so Singaporeans should just get themselves immune to the more deadly virus by suffering a minor flu for now. Besides, the flu can be passed around very easily, and temperature screening cannot sieve out all cases. I like this logical idea.

The whole week in school was made more interesting by H1N1. First, E invented a new name for it, by pronouncing it as "Hiney" - which also refers to your rear end. Next, every class was assigned to sit at specific tables during recess. But the tables had an average capacity of 6 seats, and each class had about 3 tables, and 1.5 if the class you happened to be sharing with had the same recess time slot. But there are always ways to get around the rules. So some people in class started sitting at the 3E5 table, and whatever classes they were in during their sec 1/2 years.

The school sounded a lot like a shopping centre. There were rather frequent announcements over the intercom, with the introductory tune. One particular announcement yesterday sent classes all over the classroom block through a roller coaster of anticipation.

Mrs T: "Due to the increasing spread of the H1N1 virus, the school has decided..."
Everyone (silently): "no school, please, no school, NO SCH.."
Mrs T: "to implement some measures..."
Every one's heart sank.
Mrs T talked about improving some social distancing thing. The school wanted to minimise large scale gatherings, so the plan was to allow some classes to spend their recess in class. That meant eating in the classroom.
The more enthusiastic top half of classroom block cheered (lower sec).
Mrs Tan: "Only upper sec classes will be among those chosen..."
*Bottom half of the block cheers* The top half was probably still trying to absorb the shock.
The rest of the class selection announcement was mainly accompanied with screams from various locations around the bottom half of the block. It sounded like imitation (a compositional device I learnt in music). Anyway, 4/5 was selected. Next week is going to be another week to look forward to.

Jean and I realised at 2pm that we were the worship and pianist respectively today. That meant 2 hours to get ready. And considering how lousy I am at the piano... Ok I shall not dwell on that sad fact. Captain's ball today was tiring but fun. I met Elena (a 92-batch senior from strings) while walking outside church to eat dinner. We go to the same church building (sometimes, because she usually goes to the other branch), but she's from the English assembly, and I'm from Chinese. Siling, I'm ready to challenge you for the biggest brain! Dad's speaking at church now, mom is there too, moral support? So there are 2 kids at home succumbing to computer addiction.